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• Bellinghman commented on Circumstantial connections
  No windows at any point? I wonder why. In which case, I suppose it depends on what KL is like. Charlie's been through there but he's away, and the person I know who goes to KL a lot is actually currently flying Malaysian from Perth up to KL so he's also out of contact, but either of them would be able to clarify what KL's air bridges are like. As for ground control and ATC, you might well be right. So it might be possible at some airports, we don't know about KL....
• David L commented on Circumstantial connections
  At DFW windows all over the terminal gate areas. Panoramic. But the actual ramps to the plane, no. And unless look closely at some of the areas where they've had to expand with no space it isn't obvious which plane you might be getting on. And then you have areas like Boston a decade or few back where you got on a special bus that drove out to the plane and then raised itself up so you could exit from the bus directly onto the plane. I guess the airport/airline does what they have to do to add flights when...
• paws4thot commented on Circumstantial connections
  I hadn't read this I think (well not for a while) but forgive me if I wonder why no-one would notice that a typical bizjet or even an Embraer EJ145 (needed for reported performance) won't fit an airbridge....
• Bellinghman commented on Circumstantial connections
  I think the idea was that a) A big mobile tube connected to the airbridge, and took away the passengers. Obviously, this tube is effectively a fully fitted out fuselage with wings visible through its windows from inside to lull the passengers, because otherwise a ruckus would be raised. Either that, or the airbridge itself was faked, and none of the passengers had ever used that gate before. b) The Bizjet sneaks out from behind a hanger to do the flight and does the whole transponder thing. It need never have gone near the airbridge. In the detective story, this...
• paws4thot commented on Circumstantial connections
  I think this requires connivence in the tower. Not onl is there my job which gives me an idea of airfield operations, but I've talked with tower controllers, and someone there would have to know about the swap. At this point I'm not wondering "What happened to the passengers?" because finding 300ish people who "want to disappear" isn't that much of a stretch compared with finding several ground staff and ATC who are sufficiently corrupt to support the airfield operations required. Once you're wheels up with the right squack and pilots who're controlling the performance to match the type they're...